Namkha Jam

POLITICAL PRISONER
Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
ནམ་མཁའ་བྱམས།(Nanka Xian)
Gender
Male
Detention Year
2010s: 2012
Origin County Level
Origin County Geolocation

Latitude: 35.5167

Longitude: 102.0167

Origin County Geolocation (linked POLITICAL PRISONER)
Rebkong County(རེབ་ཀོང་རྫོང་།)
Origin Province
  • Qinghai Province
Origin Prefecture
  • Malho (Ch: Huangnan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Date of Detention
31/01/2012
Occupation at Detention
Education
Grounds for Detention
  • Inciting separatism
Type of Place of Current Detention
Prison
Detention Centre/Prison
Dongchuan Prison
Responsible for arrest and detention
  • Police
Description of event

He had been arbitrarily detained in February 2012 for sharing information and pictures of self-immolation protests with sources outside Tibet. He was sentenced to six years in prison and deprivation of political rights for three years, along with three other Tibetans, at trials held in Rebkong and Tsekhog (Ch: Zeku) counties by the Malho Intermediate People’s Court

Sentencing Court
Malho Intermediate People's Court
Length of Sentence
6 Years
Prison Location
Status of Detention
Released: Upon completion of sentence
Comments

Three years deprivation of political rights

Published
Published